abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Dang, exactly the point I made on post #1 of this series.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, are Kennedies Trills?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"pet" is also a verb.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

True. I intend to live forever and so far so good.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's factory installed bloat. But a lot of legacy software relies on it, so uninstalling it is a hassle.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure. But still not all of them do it out of anger. In fact, I'm hopeful that most don't. Because if you hit children because you're angry, you're an asshole, but if you hit children as a means to discipline then you're just a misguided parent.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

There aren't that many. A good chunk of us here are Linux nerds. You don't have to be condescending about confronting (I assume) intentional misinterpretation of comments.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You assume that all corporal punishment comes from anger. And you also assume all corporal punishment is beating kids. A lot of parents hit their children as a conscious act of disciplining.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose, at this point, I want to understand whether you accidentally misinterpreted the context of the original comment (downloading .exe from TPB) or intentionally misinterpreted it for "comedic effect".

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy back to making assumptions about comments. Not in the least indicated by the amount of downvotes to my original comment. Also Lemming really don't like hearing truths that don't vibe with them.

But to address your comment, I suppose you didn't say anything wrong, but it assumes that I don't know about adverse effects of corporal punishment and somehow approve of it.

I come from culture where corporal punishment is the default. 90-95% of boys (not so sure about girls, should be much less) experienced it, at least in the years of my childhood (it luckily seems to be going down, from my personal experience). But this doesn't mean that 95% of boys get beaten to pulp with a bludgeon. Most of the punishment is a slap on the back of the neck or something equivalent. Do I approve of it? No. But unlike some, I'm also willing to acknowledge that it's by far not the worst thing a parent can do, and the amount of potential trauma is likely negligible. And most children don't see these as "parents turning on them" or "life threatening experience". (Source: was a child who went to many different schools with children of various socioeconomic status)

I wasn't saying I was fortunate, I'm pretty sure I have enough traumatic experiences, including some instances that I remember to this day. And just because all of what I said above is true, you don't have to assume that my comments are an emphatic endorsement for child-beating, or beating any living creature, for that matter.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So is your point to argue semantics?

"Downloading" colloquially referes to the proces of saving some data onto persistent storage device. When you open HTML pages they are loaded directly into RAM. They might be saved to drive if they are cached. But no regular person would refer to that process as downloading. Even I, as a webdev, don't.

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